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My First Year of Practice: December 2008
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My First Year of Practice. Tuesday, December 23, 2008. Houston, we have a shoulder. Does anyone out there actually LIKE nights? Please, if you do, tell me your secret. I spend the day of my night shift worried and down, trying to take it easy and attempting a nap in the afternoon which never seems to work. My emotions are even more sensitive at 3 in the morning. My ability to multitask is compromised. And if I am in the least bit busy and the beeper goes off I want to crumble. But what can I do? Supposed...
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My First Year of Practice: May 2009
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My First Year of Practice. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Not so good week. There have been so many upsetting things that have gone down this week. I don’t think I have ever wanted more, someone to come home to, someone to talk to or cry to, than in these past 7-10 days. It was a week that the universe not so subtly reminded me how hard it is to constantly be the recipient of someone else’s pain. It also reminded me that there is a finite pool of strategies to use to make yourself feel better in these situations.
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My First Year of Practice: Eduvacation
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My First Year of Practice. Saturday, October 24, 2009. Well, I finally went on my first eduvacation. What’s an eduvacation you ask? Simply put, it’s a vacation…plus education! The way it typically works is you spend 4 or 5 days in a warm and/or beautiful place, listen to lectures in the morning, and have free time to sit on the beach or at the pool or for exploring in the afternoon. So, you get a little break from work and life and, at the same time, you learn some new stuff about your field. And sheR...
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My First Year of Practice: March 2009
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My First Year of Practice. Sunday, March 22, 2009. For some reason, I was only scheduled for one call day last week as opposed to my usual two. I noticed the extra blank space in my appointment book a couple of weeks ago and got this relief/ecstatic/criminal feeling in my body and my mind kept jumping back and forth between thoughts of, “Should I tell someone about the mistake? To “Yes yes yes. There is no way I am not getting away with this extra day of escape from the hospital.”. Plans were going to be.
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My First Year of Practice: October 2009
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My First Year of Practice. Saturday, October 24, 2009. Well, I finally went on my first eduvacation. What’s an eduvacation you ask? Simply put, it’s a vacation…plus education! The way it typically works is you spend 4 or 5 days in a warm and/or beautiful place, listen to lectures in the morning, and have free time to sit on the beach or at the pool or for exploring in the afternoon. So, you get a little break from work and life and, at the same time, you learn some new stuff about your field. And sheR...
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My First Year of Practice: Hunger
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My First Year of Practice. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Growing up, I never fasted for Yom Kippur. And neither did my father. My mother did but as I later found out, she made a lot of allowances for herself:. 8220;Well, I have to have a cup of coffee in the morning. But just the one. With cream. No sugar. I have to or else I’ll get a headache! And I need gum. Just the gum though, no food. Throughout the day. Or I’ll get sick. I get so nauseas when I don’t eat! Like, the state or the city? Teen #3 has com...
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My First Year of Practice: Babies Having Babies
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My First Year of Practice. Monday, July 13, 2009. I can’t remember if I have already written about just how many teens I see in the office. Our practice doesn’t really serve a ton of teens in general but I do think because during my interviews I expressed an interest in them and on my “bio card” that is at our front desk it says under professional interests: “Adolescent health and prenatal care”, they just send’em all my way. More afraid of an abortion than of a baby? I got the perfect midwife for you!
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My First Year of Practice: Falling Into My Lap
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My First Year of Practice. Sunday, June 21, 2009. Falling Into My Lap. There are more than a handful of nursing schools in the city where I live. And it just so happens that the director of one of these schools is also a graduate and the president of the alumni board at the nursing school I graduated from. This director/president was the facilitator of the panel discussion and at the end of the event she handed me her card and said simply, “Come teach for us.”. 8220;You’re making excuses.”. I said that I...
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My First Year of Practice: not so good week
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My First Year of Practice. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Not so good week. There have been so many upsetting things that have gone down this week. I don’t think I have ever wanted more, someone to come home to, someone to talk to or cry to, than in these past 7-10 days. It was a week that the universe not so subtly reminded me how hard it is to constantly be the recipient of someone else’s pain. It also reminded me that there is a finite pool of strategies to use to make yourself feel better in these situations.
